Medium Just Became an Even Worse Option for Blogging

Medium has quietly been making a series of changes that are all bad news for writers who still publish articles on their platform.

I discovered the most recent—and most significant—change when I emailed the Medium support a few days ago asking to update the canonical links of the e-Residency article that I had just re-written and updated on nomadgate.com.

Well, this new move on their part makes that even more pronounced. You used to be able to canonically link to your own site when you post to Medium. But now they’re killing that off. They had a plugin that could do it, but they’ve stopped maintaining it.

This reinforces my recommendation regarding writing online:

Keep everything on your own site as much as possible.

Use very few third-party services, and ideally none. This means anything that involves third-party domains that you don’t control fully.